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    It is not the case that Selecting for fair-skinned children in a racist society perpetuates social injustice against darker-skinned people without diminishing the wellbeing of the selected children.

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    • 1.In a racist society, fair-skinned individuals face no wellbeing penalty from being selected.
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    • 2.The selection reinforces racial hierarchy and sustains injustice against those with darker skin.
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    • 3.Therefore, the selection can simultaneously preserve or increase individual wellbeing while deepening social injustice.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Rawlsian justice requires that social institutions not entrench advantages derived from morally arbitrary traits like skin color.
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    • 2.Parental reproductive choices that systematically exploit unjust racial hierarchies function as quasi-institutional practices with distributive consequences.
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    • 3.A practice that foreseeably deepens structural disadvantage for the least favored group violates the difference principle regardless of individual benefit.
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    • 1.Structural injustice, as Iris Marion Young argues, is perpetuated through individually rational actions that cumulatively reproduce oppressive systems.
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    • 2.Selecting for skin tone to gain racial privilege is a paradigm case where individual optimization reproduces collective domination without any single actor bearing full responsibility.
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    • 3.The absence of wellbeing harm to the selected child does not dissolve the agent's contributory responsibility for sustaining the unjust structure they are navigating.
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